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The flag was first authorized by congress on June 14, 1777. This day is now observed as Flag Day throughout America.
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The world's first jail was built in Benjamin Franklin's living room
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The first American roller coaster was created in the mid 1800s. The name of the first American roller coaster is the Switchback Railway.
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Petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Petroleum Reitwagan. It was designed and built by the German inventors
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The first school buses where horse drawn carriages. Wayne Works was the one that made the horse drawn carriages.
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The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 Chicago World's fair. George Washington invented the Ferris wheel in the 1890s.
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Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. He conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the 19th century.
